Some owners of the new Apple Watch SE report a hardware error that can lead to the smartwatch overheating. Currently, however, all the information comes from one market – South Korea, where there are currently six reported cases, as a user on Reddit has put together. The country may have received a faulty delivery, so it is unclear how widespread the problem actually is.

Rudely awakened by overheating Those affected suddenly develop a lot of heat in the watch. This can happen when the device is charging. However, cases have also been reported where the watch overheats even on the arm. In at least one case, this happened while wearing the watch overnight – the person concerned was awakened roughly and had red spots on his wrist. After overheating, the screen could no longer be activated, a yellow “burn-in point” appears on the top right Side of the display. Fires do not appear to have occurred.

Apple is exchanging devices Apple is currently handling the problem an exchange of affected models. It remained unclear exactly where the heat was generated. MacRumors speculates that it could be the area between the Taptic Engine and the display connector , the Apple Watch SE should have a similar structure to previous computer clocks from the group.

SE is Apple’s new entry-level model The Apple Watch SE was launched together with the Apple Watch Series 6 in October. Apple wants to leave the device on the market for a longer period of time – it should serve as a new entry-level model. The smartwatch relies on the S5 chip from last year’s model Se